Hello family!!!
Ahhh the tender mercies of the Lord!! This past week was filled with them! It seems even at home with you guys.
I will start with the most exciting news.. this month if all goes well we will have a baptism on the 9, 16, 23 :) One is an eight year old but it still counts. Her family was less active and so we have been teaching her the lessons. Her name is Rylee Day and she is really sweet. Her little sister is Taylee (6) and she has blonde hair so I am her favourite and Rylee has brown hair and so does Sister Westover so sister Westover is her favourite! They told us that when we had dinner at their house on Sunday! Hehe. We helped them move in and with tons of stuff. It just been so amazing to be there and see their lives change and get put back together through the Gospel.
The one on the 9th is a 10 year old boy and he almost got baptised when he was 8 but got scared and so we are working with him to help him with that. He is a cute kid who is here with his Grandparents. They got permission from the his parents to have him baptised and he will go to church with his Sister back where he lives. He is a cute kid.
The next is a 13 year old boy lol. All kids but this kid is amazing! He is extremely mature. He reads everything that we tell him to and can perfectly recount what it said and how he felt. He loves learning and really wants to keep the commandments. He comes from a kinda rough back ground. His dad lives with them but his dad has his struggles and so his mum has had to be the breadwinner and bring up some of her daughters kids. They are the cutest little girls. He helps his mum with everything and is extremely respectful to her. More respectful than any other kid I have seen his age. His mum joined the church about 10 years ago and quickly became less active becuase she was going through alot. So we have been teaching her almost like you would someone who is hearing about the church for the first time!
So Sunday we had an amazing experience with them. Oh they are the ones that I told you about where my hiccups went away for the lesson! Sorry I probably told you most of that stuff already.. sorry all the days smoosh into one out here!
Ok so we have been praying for Romiro to feel ready for baptism and we had asked twice previously how he felt about it and was always nervious and didnt want to. Last week we had taught them about following the prophet and this week we went through the chapter we had left them and then watched on the Lord's Errand which is a biography type thing of Pres Monsons life. It was so powerful. We have an amazing Prophet and really what got him there was listening to the promptings of the Spirit. There were so many times through the movie where Romiro or his mum would just look at us and kinda go wow or something. It is an amazing movie. At one particular part in this movie, they tell of when he is called to be on the Stake Presidency in the middle of some sought of meeting without any prior warning. He was only in his early 20's I think and they asked to come up and give an impromptu talk and tell them if he will accept the calling. As he is walking up to the stage he said that he felt the last line of the song come into his mind which were " Have courage my boy to say no, have courage my boy to say no." It was a song on the word of Wisdom or something. And then the wards changed in his mind to.. "Have courage my boy to say Yes". As this was said.. impressed in my mind was "Romiro needs to be baptised in three weeks and for the next two weeks he needs to pray about it."
So after the movie we asked them how they felt about it and the parts they liked etc.. we talked about it alot and then Sister Westover shared a powerful testimony on the Prophet and I knew it was my turn. The Spirit had just been getting stronger and stronger in the room. Just as I started describing the part I liked, the dad walked in the house and then like two seconds after that the two little girls poked their heads in for no reason and then walked back outside. Opposition! Then I started again and I cannot remember how I said it but I just felt the Spirit fill the room and I told him what I had felt at that point. I talked about how much we felt god loved them when we were with them, how much he cared about them and that they could know the things we were telling them even enough to take away my hiccups.. such a simple thing. Then i told him what I had felt at that moment and asked him how he felt. He said nervous but excited, like it feels right.
The we got to read where they were up to in the BOM which was 1 Nephi chapter 3... another tender mercy! It was such a powerful lesson. He is praying. The date is set. Listen to promptings!
Well that was a long winded one and now I dont have time to tell you anything else even though I want to!
I love you all!!
Sister Huckfeldt
Monday, July 4, 2011
A dry spell broken
Holy Hawkeye!!! What a great week!
Happpppppyyy Fatthhers day again!!!!
Ok so Saturday broke a six month dry spell for this area! Dan got baptised! It was so exciting. We decorated the room all nice and filled the font ourselves and it was just fun...... I did a musical item!!! It was the least scared I have ever been to sing infront of people and lots of people said it was good. I sang "teach me to walk in the light" with Dan's fellowshipper. Here is how we arranged it:
I sang the first verse
Brother Cambell sang the second verse
Then we sang at the same time me singing the first verse and him singing the second
Then we sang the last verse together
Then we sang half of the last line slower to finish.
Any way that was fun and Dan's daughter and son in law who are the only ones of his kids that are members came and they gave the talks! It was so cute. His daughter balled the whole way through and was just so happy! It really was powerful to watch and be a part of! When the bishop got up to do his welcome to the ward he got a few people to come up and say a few things and he got us up and so we got to thank Dan and share alot about how we felt! It was a great baptism. Plus his sick wife came! She is really cute too! I am so excited becuase if all goes well I shoudl be here for them to be sealed in the templ!
Then the next day we went to Dan's ward to see him get confirmed and to get the Aaronic priesthood!! He is a changed man. His countenance is so different!. Ahhh so good!
Then Sunday was awesome! We had a great day seeing people but then yesterday happened!!!----
So we had an appointment first thing where we were going to be teaching follow the Prophet and Word of Wisdom. But since breakfast I had had the hiccups! It was pretty funny. They were coming like every 10 seconds, it was a pain. So I was a wee bit worried walking into that lesson and I was hiccuping as we were having our small talk at the start. They thought my hiccups were funny... then... Sister Westover said the opening prayer and she prayed that they would go away for the lesson and I said a silent prayer that they would go away and they did! I still felt like I needed to hiccup for a little while and that eventually left too and we had a great lesson! They are the coolest family! But its like the elder that was in my first district who had terrets.. he never ever had it in a lesson! This is really not our work.. He perfects us so that it can be his.
Then we had lunch :)
Thennn... we felt like we should go see a less active lady named sister brandt.. well she moved but her friend who we had met and a few times lives there now... She is a less active too and waayyyy more receptive than sister brandt. We had an awesome chat with her and she said we could start teaching her the lessons. We are going to help her paint too. It was exciting. She really wants to have the gospel back in her life and she knows she just needs a little help. She is going to fit in so well in her ward too!
Then... we went and saw Leo who is this guy who owns a shop in town who studies the bible all day long so we took him some scriptures to show him why church is on Sunday cause he used to be 7th day adventist
Then, We had dinner and it was awesome!!!! I ate too much hehe but it was worth it!
Then we went to the church and prayed and felt like we should go see this less active that the Bishop had told us we should see. We went to what we thought was he house. We werent sure what if it was her house and I felt like it wasnt her house but to try it anyway.. We walked up to the door and this big scary guy answered the (the lady Stephanie who we were meant to see was supposed to be divorced) door. We intodruced ourselves and said we were there to see stephanie... he was like oh shes on the couch.. come on in! We went in and introduced ourselves and I was like.. this is weird. This is not matching her description so I asked for her last name! It was a totally different Stephanie that lived on the same street. So we had a little laugh and chatted for a bit and then... we taught her the plan of salvation! We are going back on Saturday to teach her again!!! Cool hey!
Then we went to the other Stephanies real house after calling the Bishop and she wasnt home lol
Then we went to Marci Freoer's house a potential investigator.. she is married to a member and she was home finally! Farmers are some of the busiest people in the world! She took us to pick asparagus and we laughed with her alot!!!! We are going to help her one day on her farm and she is going to take us for a tour in the onion processing place. And hopefully amongst this we can convince her to let us teach her!!!
So that was our fun day yesterday!
The whole of last week and this week we have seen many tender mercies and Miracles!
Plus we got to go to the temple this morning with one of my favourite people in the world called sister Jacobs. She is so funny and we had a wonderful time!
Well thats all for today folks! Until next week!
I LOVE YOU ALLL
Happpppppyyy Fatthhers day again!!!!
Ok so Saturday broke a six month dry spell for this area! Dan got baptised! It was so exciting. We decorated the room all nice and filled the font ourselves and it was just fun...... I did a musical item!!! It was the least scared I have ever been to sing infront of people and lots of people said it was good. I sang "teach me to walk in the light" with Dan's fellowshipper. Here is how we arranged it:
I sang the first verse
Brother Cambell sang the second verse
Then we sang at the same time me singing the first verse and him singing the second
Then we sang the last verse together
Then we sang half of the last line slower to finish.
Any way that was fun and Dan's daughter and son in law who are the only ones of his kids that are members came and they gave the talks! It was so cute. His daughter balled the whole way through and was just so happy! It really was powerful to watch and be a part of! When the bishop got up to do his welcome to the ward he got a few people to come up and say a few things and he got us up and so we got to thank Dan and share alot about how we felt! It was a great baptism. Plus his sick wife came! She is really cute too! I am so excited becuase if all goes well I shoudl be here for them to be sealed in the templ!
Then the next day we went to Dan's ward to see him get confirmed and to get the Aaronic priesthood!! He is a changed man. His countenance is so different!. Ahhh so good!
Then Sunday was awesome! We had a great day seeing people but then yesterday happened!!!----
So we had an appointment first thing where we were going to be teaching follow the Prophet and Word of Wisdom. But since breakfast I had had the hiccups! It was pretty funny. They were coming like every 10 seconds, it was a pain. So I was a wee bit worried walking into that lesson and I was hiccuping as we were having our small talk at the start. They thought my hiccups were funny... then... Sister Westover said the opening prayer and she prayed that they would go away for the lesson and I said a silent prayer that they would go away and they did! I still felt like I needed to hiccup for a little while and that eventually left too and we had a great lesson! They are the coolest family! But its like the elder that was in my first district who had terrets.. he never ever had it in a lesson! This is really not our work.. He perfects us so that it can be his.
Then we had lunch :)
Thennn... we felt like we should go see a less active lady named sister brandt.. well she moved but her friend who we had met and a few times lives there now... She is a less active too and waayyyy more receptive than sister brandt. We had an awesome chat with her and she said we could start teaching her the lessons. We are going to help her paint too. It was exciting. She really wants to have the gospel back in her life and she knows she just needs a little help. She is going to fit in so well in her ward too!
Then... we went and saw Leo who is this guy who owns a shop in town who studies the bible all day long so we took him some scriptures to show him why church is on Sunday cause he used to be 7th day adventist
Then, We had dinner and it was awesome!!!! I ate too much hehe but it was worth it!
Then we went to the church and prayed and felt like we should go see this less active that the Bishop had told us we should see. We went to what we thought was he house. We werent sure what if it was her house and I felt like it wasnt her house but to try it anyway.. We walked up to the door and this big scary guy answered the (the lady Stephanie who we were meant to see was supposed to be divorced) door. We intodruced ourselves and said we were there to see stephanie... he was like oh shes on the couch.. come on in! We went in and introduced ourselves and I was like.. this is weird. This is not matching her description so I asked for her last name! It was a totally different Stephanie that lived on the same street. So we had a little laugh and chatted for a bit and then... we taught her the plan of salvation! We are going back on Saturday to teach her again!!! Cool hey!
Then we went to the other Stephanies real house after calling the Bishop and she wasnt home lol
Then we went to Marci Freoer's house a potential investigator.. she is married to a member and she was home finally! Farmers are some of the busiest people in the world! She took us to pick asparagus and we laughed with her alot!!!! We are going to help her one day on her farm and she is going to take us for a tour in the onion processing place. And hopefully amongst this we can convince her to let us teach her!!!
So that was our fun day yesterday!
The whole of last week and this week we have seen many tender mercies and Miracles!
Plus we got to go to the temple this morning with one of my favourite people in the world called sister Jacobs. She is so funny and we had a wonderful time!
Well thats all for today folks! Until next week!
I LOVE YOU ALLL
Happy fathers day
Happy Fathers Day all you Fathers out there!!!!!!
Hi Everybody!
Holy Shamoly we had a cool week! So remember how last week i was telling you that we are doing things to get known with the members... well.. we had like 4 people in the last week either come up to us and introduce us to their friends who they had brought to church or call us and becuase they want to set up a time for us to teach their friends. They all say like.. hey so I asked my friend if she/he wants to take the discussions and they want to so can we make a time for this week! We just had another person from Vale call and set up a time with her friend on Friday! So now we are starting to get all of these solid investigators, being taught in member families homes and I am so excited! That is truly what makes the difference!
So we gave a talk in each ward in the town called Vale on Sunday and the first ward we spoke, the ward mission leader had gotten our fliers printed out and put in the middle of the program. Its really funny opening up the newsletter in a random ward and seeing your face! Not an experience that happens very often! I have attached our flier for your perusal! The person from Vale that called us a moment ago is from the first ward we spoke in. I thought my talk totally bombed the first time but I'm sure it wasn't that bad. I spoke on how love is such an important aspect in missionary work and how keeping every commandment, incl missionary work stems from love! So I made some changes and added some more personal experiences and it went alittle better plus it went better cause I only had to fill my time of 15 minutes. The 1st ward is smaller so everything went shorter and then my companion spoke first and didnt look at the clock and only spoke for about 10 minutes! So I had about 25minutes to fill with a 15 minute talk! I stretched it to 20 and then they had asked the ward mission leader to fill in the time if need be and he did a super good job of rounding everything off. It was probably all meant to be! Plus someone said that I sound like a movie star because of my accent lol!
We have Dan's baptism this Sunday and we just have to create the program we are all done! He is really excited and we have started teaching his wife too who has been inactive for probably 10 years since she was a recent convert! They are such an awesome couple! I cannot wait for them to get sealed in the temple! I hope I can go! That would be my last month in the mission! That would be an awesome thing to end on!
Yesterday we got our oil changed and while we waited we decided to walk down to this old lady's house whom we are trying to convince to let us teach her and on the way there I decided that I needed to tell my companion some of the things she was doing to tick me off hehe.. so we were only half way done when we were almost at her house so we walked down the street next to it so we could sought it out and there was some people who saw us and called us over and so we got to teach them a little lesson. It was this old lady who and her two middle aged kids and they were talking about some of the things that were troubling the old lady because over half of her ten kids had died all different ways, some when they were little, one got ran over by a train, some from drugs and alcohol etc. So we got to share a with her that she will see them again and they want us to come back some time! Cool hey! I was inspired to be irritated hehe! Not really but there is a reason for everything and we really did get to work through alot of things, figure out alot of our insecurities which were creating different reactions in each other and make goals and stuff so that was fun!
I am so happy to hear how you all being blessed at home! It sounds like things are going well and opportunities are arising for all of you!
Thank you again for the emails and letters! I got the bio oil and my skin is enjoying it!
There are always so many things that I can write but I forget things past like two days! oh but something that I am really excited about is that we are still waking up every morning and are exercising! Everyday for a month! Its a habit! Just have to keep going! Endure the End!
Hi Everybody!
Holy Shamoly we had a cool week! So remember how last week i was telling you that we are doing things to get known with the members... well.. we had like 4 people in the last week either come up to us and introduce us to their friends who they had brought to church or call us and becuase they want to set up a time for us to teach their friends. They all say like.. hey so I asked my friend if she/he wants to take the discussions and they want to so can we make a time for this week! We just had another person from Vale call and set up a time with her friend on Friday! So now we are starting to get all of these solid investigators, being taught in member families homes and I am so excited! That is truly what makes the difference!
So we gave a talk in each ward in the town called Vale on Sunday and the first ward we spoke, the ward mission leader had gotten our fliers printed out and put in the middle of the program. Its really funny opening up the newsletter in a random ward and seeing your face! Not an experience that happens very often! I have attached our flier for your perusal! The person from Vale that called us a moment ago is from the first ward we spoke in. I thought my talk totally bombed the first time but I'm sure it wasn't that bad. I spoke on how love is such an important aspect in missionary work and how keeping every commandment, incl missionary work stems from love! So I made some changes and added some more personal experiences and it went alittle better plus it went better cause I only had to fill my time of 15 minutes. The 1st ward is smaller so everything went shorter and then my companion spoke first and didnt look at the clock and only spoke for about 10 minutes! So I had about 25minutes to fill with a 15 minute talk! I stretched it to 20 and then they had asked the ward mission leader to fill in the time if need be and he did a super good job of rounding everything off. It was probably all meant to be! Plus someone said that I sound like a movie star because of my accent lol!
We have Dan's baptism this Sunday and we just have to create the program we are all done! He is really excited and we have started teaching his wife too who has been inactive for probably 10 years since she was a recent convert! They are such an awesome couple! I cannot wait for them to get sealed in the temple! I hope I can go! That would be my last month in the mission! That would be an awesome thing to end on!
Yesterday we got our oil changed and while we waited we decided to walk down to this old lady's house whom we are trying to convince to let us teach her and on the way there I decided that I needed to tell my companion some of the things she was doing to tick me off hehe.. so we were only half way done when we were almost at her house so we walked down the street next to it so we could sought it out and there was some people who saw us and called us over and so we got to teach them a little lesson. It was this old lady who and her two middle aged kids and they were talking about some of the things that were troubling the old lady because over half of her ten kids had died all different ways, some when they were little, one got ran over by a train, some from drugs and alcohol etc. So we got to share a with her that she will see them again and they want us to come back some time! Cool hey! I was inspired to be irritated hehe! Not really but there is a reason for everything and we really did get to work through alot of things, figure out alot of our insecurities which were creating different reactions in each other and make goals and stuff so that was fun!
I am so happy to hear how you all being blessed at home! It sounds like things are going well and opportunities are arising for all of you!
Thank you again for the emails and letters! I got the bio oil and my skin is enjoying it!
There are always so many things that I can write but I forget things past like two days! oh but something that I am really excited about is that we are still waking up every morning and are exercising! Everyday for a month! Its a habit! Just have to keep going! Endure the End!
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